The Amber Sword

The carriage quickly arrived in Valhalla and stopped in the Central District after passing through a gate along the road on the roots of a huge tree; Brando looked out at the view and made a gesture to Flo indicating that she had stopped, then opened the door and jumped off the carriage and saw His Royal Highness the Little Prince waiting not far away.

“Teacher. ”

Haruze saluted Brando with the courtesy that a student deserved, standing behind him, Nimatis, and another man in a white linen robe, like the ancient Greek goddess, but the snake was prickly and a Medusa. Brando has heard of this Medusa named Les Mecca for a long time, but today is the first time he's seen it.

“Your Royal Highness, how has swordsmanship entered the country for two months? ”

Haruze's face suddenly became reddish and Nana could not answer.

It didn't look so good, Brando smiled and patted the little prince on his naive shoulder: "Don't worry, it's okay. ”

At this time, several turquoise vines descended from the crown layer hundreds of meters high in Valhalla, all of which had thick arms and tangled ends into each other to form a basket; Brando let Haruze, Nimmasis and Little Roman share a basket with themselves, and the rest of them took another basket. After he gave an order, the vines began to rise slowly. Little Roman, though not on this type of vehicle for the first time, was excited to wander around in the middle of the air, screaming and shoutinizing, scared Haruze to hold the edge of the frame, but after a certain height, the businessman and his sister also grabbed the frame tightly and stood still.

“Swordsmanship is not everything, Haruzer," Brando said, looking at the dwindling hills and brown forests beneath his feet, continuing his earlier conversation: "If I remember correctly, you will be thirteen years old after next month. ”

Haruze nodded somewhat bewildered at his teacher.

“Starting next month, I'll teach you magic. ”

“Magic?” Haruze was slightly stunned: “Can I learn magic too, teacher? ”

“Of course." Brando nodded and said no more. He suddenly felt a gaze on himself and found that Nimaisie was staring at herself. The wounds on the female knight seemed to have healed long ago. She wore a tight military uniform today and looked very English. “What's the matter, learn... Ms. Nimatis?” Brando asked.

“Are you going to teach His Royal Highness magic? Did you tell Her Highness about this?” Nimmasis said.

“Not yet, but Haruzer has a magical gift. He has wasted too much time on his swordsmanship journey. Why not try another way? It was too late to learn the sword at the age of thirteen, but it was only at the right time that he might become a brilliant wizard in the future.” He laughed, "As for Her Royal Highness, I will inform her. ”

The vine basket quickly climbed to the top, where there were many wooden stacked bridges stretching out of Central Square to facilitate the footsteps of the people in the vine basket, first arriving at Valhalla, where the lady of staff had been waiting for them for a long time. She held a pile of parchment paper for some unknown purpose, followed behind her by Tia and the rest of the Tiger Sparrow Mercenary Corps, and when she saw Brando, Roman and Flo, Tia shouted at his sister with surprise, and the lady of the staff beside him gave him a look, Brando HeartLink, and asked: “Are they here? ”

Antitina nodded.

“Where are they?” Brando asked.

“Ms. Tania, she doesn't like too much noise, I put her to rest in the hallway. ”

If you don't like the noise, you'll open a shop downtown in Ambethel? Brando shook his head inexplicably: "Let's go see her first. ”

The nominal loser came on time...

As Antitina pushed through an arch with a skeleton on its surface, a fairy lady was sitting safely on the round wooden table in the hall, kneeling on the mat - a small mat and a small mat were specially prepared for her on the table, a box-sized coffee table with the same small size of white porcelain tea set on it, filled with chamomile - and she saw Brando walking behind Antitina and the lady of the staff, turning back, holding up the cup with her hands, sipping it carefully, and then gently dropping it.

“Congressional dissatisfaction, little guy.” The first sentence of the fairy lady's opening was to calm down in the lobby.

Medusa Les Mecca stared closely at the silver star brooch on the fairy lady's chest as if she had been stabbed.

“It wasn't everyone who agreed to put the Tianqing Gun here to protect you. It was me and Master William who tried to convince the council to line up the House of Representatives, but now you're making us passive. ”

“Aunt Tania, this is not all our fault, and I think you should understand this," Brando replied quite innocently as he told Flo to close the door. "At the time, you promised me that the illusion you had imposed on Tianqing's gun would never be discovered by anyone - unless that man was a worldly sage, but now the worldly sage is still in El Lanta, and your gun was stolen by the Cruz. ”

Tania lifted her eyelids and looked at him with some surprise through her silver-sided glasses: “Don't talk too poorly, little man. If you hadn't taken it against a true god, how could the illusion on the Sky Blue Gun have dissipated? ”

“But Syd wasn't around at the time, and if he couldn't stand a little divine fluctuations, I don't think the so-called most powerful illusion would be too famous, would it? ”

“If I told Roan what you said, you wonder if he would come to you like a mad lion to fight," Tania almost laughed when she was reasoned by the strong word: “A little divine fluctuation in your mouth destroyed three cities and blew up the frost forest into a white field, don't think we don't know.” She knocked on the white porcelain teacup and asked: “This cup is good. How come you have a tea set for the fairies? Is it made for me? ”

“That's for the Light Spirits.” Brando glanced at the tea set and replied.

“Like your grandfather, it doesn't cheer a woman up at all," Tania whispered to him: "The congressional meaning is that the Tianqing gun must be retrieved. ”

“That's not easy," Brando said. “With your strength, it's easy to compress the Temple of Fire. The Tianqing Gun is ours. The Cruz are the losers in this matter from the beginning. If you come out and let them give it back, I'm sure they won't dare push the three blocks. ”

“Naïve little guy, there's no such thing as that,” replied Tania. "Although Buga is the most powerful country in the world, the Cruz can't afford to dwarf. The land under the control of the Temple of Fire is vast and populous, and the evil between two forces of such magnitude involves a series of complex problems, not to mention war. Let me be honest with you, little guy, there's no chance of convincing the council. ”

“Then you want the Tianqing Gun back, don't you? ”

Brando said softly, “I see, you're counting on me again. ”

The fairy lady looked at him obliquely: "Stop pretending, you knew that already, didn't you? ”

Brando smiled without embarrassment: "But Aunt Tania, as you can see, I can't possibly be an opponent of the huge Krutz Empire unless someone is behind it to help Eruin. ”

“In addition to direct intervention -” Tania said.

“Except for direct intervention.” Brando repeats with certainty.

“Go ahead, what do you want us to do? ”

Brando was ready to make a gesture to the Antitina around him, and the lady bureaucrat helped spread the rolls of parchment paper she'd been holding in her arms on the table, and those were some drawings, and the fairy lady flipped them open, and after reading them, she realized, “Cruz frigate, do you want us to help you build this thing?” She lay on the drawing and looked back at Brando, who nodded and shook her head.

“I want you to help me build ten of these frigates, at your expense, of course; but not least, I want you to help me build a large magic dock in Valhalla, which will have the technical standards after the Thunder Age, and at least the smallest Type 4 battleship, which will have a stone ghost casting workshop that will provide at least one large group of stone ghosts as air defenses for the dock and the port, as well as to train a Phase 3 boatman and supporting professional wizard for the dock. ”

Tania looked at him with surprise: "Do you seem to know a lot about magic shipbuilding? ”

“I know a little bit,” Brando replied with some pride, "don't be fooled. ”

“Humph, a small thing, any city in Boardbugga like this has the ability to help you build it alone, and we're not going to be making a fool out of it,” Tania replied with some disdain as she flipped through the Cruz frigate drawings that Brando and Antina regarded as treasures: "You're the only one who can read them like this garbage. ”

“Trash? ”

“The Cruz technology comes from the Wind Elves, who taught them the magic warship technology, you don't know? ”

Brando, of course, knows that only Buga's artisan wizards in the world can have this bass, both poles of Vaughn's magic technology, one of which is right in front of him right now. He took a gentle breath and asked, "Can you help us build a battleship? The Dragon of Acagas? ”

“Hey, how do you know the dragon level of Acagas?” Tania asked with some surprise, "Of course not. ”

The Dragon of Acagas is the newest battleship being built by Buga since the Cold Moon and the revolutionary mainstay of the future Stone Wars. Brando certainly didn't expect it, but he just said it. And he said, "What about the old ones? ”

“Nor is it possible. ”

“Where's the frigate? ”

Tanya shook her head: “Little man, you die of this heart, the silver parliament has made an exception to help you. It is impossible to convince those old men that even if they help you build a magic dock, they can only employ the technology of the Pokémon or the Cruz. As for the Stone Ghost, it was already outflow of technology before the Second Jihad, so it wouldn't be too difficult. As for the rest, don't think too much. ”

“Hey," Brando sighed, as if he had expected: "In that case, Aunt Tania, why do you have to spark my hopes? ”

“Because you're a fool,” replied the fairy lady in disgust, "we can't, but someone can. ”

“Who?”

“Hazers, the Hazers are the dead enemies of the Krutz. If one day you really stand opposite the Empire, I can find a way to contact them. I'm sure those arrogant dwarves will be happy to help you become heartbroken on the southern border of the Empire.” She glanced at Brando and said, "You don't look down on their skills, do you? ”

“Of course, of course I can see!” Brando only reacted, some overjoyed, joking, one of the two poles of magic technology, how dare he look down, except that the Hazers had very little contact with the outside world, he did not dare to think about it.

Tania took the picture and asked, "So that's all you asked for? ”

Brando shook his head immediately: "Of course not, Aunt Tania. Naturally, it is impossible for me to take ten frigates to the Empire to retrieve the Tianqing Gun, a requirement that was only a prerequisite for our cooperation, as a precaution against possible revenge by the Empire against Eruin after I retrieved the Tianqing Gun. And I'm going to take back Tianqing's gun, which is a difficult task in itself, and I need your unreserved support. ”

The fairy lady looked at him with a god I knew you'd say that, and said, "You don't want to say that you're going to the Empire to get the Tian Qing gun back, you need a battleship to do that, do you? ”

Brando smiled embarrassingly and was obviously told something was on his mind. He shook his head. “Of course not. I just want something small, Aunt Tania. ”

After the initial consensus had been reached, the ensuing discussion had been much more relaxed, of course, relative to one party, and when the two-hour bargaining process had slipped away, Brando was satisfied and Tania looked less good. “Your grandfather wants half as smart as you, and he doesn't want to end up like that.” This is what a fairy lady said, and of course, despite her great dissatisfaction, she accepted Brando's request to retain her for a dinner in Valhalla, after all it was clear to both sides that these deals were only one of nine cows' worth for Buga.

And when Antitina walked out of Brando's hallway from Valhalla Town Hall, she couldn't help but suspect that she was still dreaming. Although she had already seen the big scene, she was still not sure to whisper to Brando and ask: “Lord, did Ms. Tania really promise to give us a thousand statues? ”

Brando nodded.

“And 300 steel puppets? ”

Brando nods again.

“And the Ethereum? ”

Brando probably guessed the idea of his own bureaucrat lady, and he turned back and said, "We're just helping the Bukas with their inventory. These things are long overdue technology for them. They accumulate in the warehouse every year, and it takes a lot of money to pay for maintenance, even if it's scrapped. Instead, they give it to us. They make more money. After all, it's not for nothing. We have to work for them. ”

“But it was a stone ghost, my lord. Earlier in Eruin, if any nobleman had a stone ghost as his guardian in his castle, it would have been a great honor. It's amazing how much we have all at once.” Antitina can hardly imagine that all this stuff is just scrap that the Bukas are anxious to dispose of in Brando's mouth, as if it wasn't until this moment that she had an intuitive understanding of the power of that legendary silver country. Of course, she also had a stronger understanding of her lord's Lion Talk, and she would never dare to ask for a price with the Bukas.

But in fact, Brando cares more about the last little deal than he cares about these things, and he wants Tania to come out and help him gather some of the special materials Valhalla desperately needs, and I'm afraid no one in the world is as rich in collections as the whitebearded wizards of the Silver League.

Antitina recovered from her dizziness for a while. She rubbed her forehead and whispered, “Lord, shall we go next? ”

Brando nodded.

“The Cruz are giving us trouble, and naturally we have to give them trouble," he replied. “Come on, let's go meet Prince Leonard. ”

They left the hall one after the other, behind them Prince Haruze was trying to keep up, but he was dragged by an arm, and the little prince turned around and looked at Medusa Les Mecca, doubtfully grabbing her, and asked, "Sister Les Mecca, what is it that you want? ”

Les Mecca put her fingers up on her lips and gave him a silent gesture, hissing and whispering, “Is that Count your teacher? ”

Haruze nodded.

“Does he support you as king? ”

Haruze shook his head: "I don't want to be king, Sister Les Mecca, but don't tell her she'll scold me. ”

“Well, little guy,” Les Mecca patted his brainmelon: “Whether you want to be king or not, you have to hold on to your teacher, I'm afraid no one in your little country can stand it better than him. ”

“What's the matter, Sister Les Mecca?” Haruze is a little confused.

“Nothing,” Les Mecca asked suddenly, "Little Prince, can you let me go with you to make that empire something? ”

“Don't you want to go, Sister Les Mecca? ”

“I changed my mind. ”

“Oh," Haruze said, “I think I can, I can pick a few people myself, I'll let Mrs. Wenzer stay. ”

“Thanks, little guy.” Medusa Les Mecca licks her lips with a split tongue, some weirdly looking in Brando's direction, "it's interesting to be able to move the Buga. ”

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